Bruce Arnold (born in London, 6 September 1936) is an English-born journalist and author who has lived in Ireland since 1957. His main expertise is in the fields of literary criticism and Art criticism.

In 1983 it emerged that that his telephone had been bugged by Charles Haughey in the Irish phone tapping scandal. He and the other bugged journalists were considered to have "anti-national" views.

Arnold has worked for the main Irish newspapers based in Dublin - The Irish Times from 1965; the Irish Press and the Sunday Independent. He also acted as Dublin correspondent of The Guardian. He has edited Hibernia and the Dublin Magazine (1962-68; formerly The Dubliner).

He is a Fellow of Trinity College Dublin, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and an honorary member of the Royal Hibernian Academy. He was awarded an honorary doctorate by University College Dublin and an OBE.